F1 confirms return of Turkish Grand Prix on 17-race calendar

Components Just one has verified the Turkish Grand Prix will return to the calendar this 12 months as F1 introduced the last four races of its 2020 calendar on Tuesday.

The preferred Istanbul Park circuit, which was final used in 2011, will host a race on Nov. 15 ahead of two races in Bahrain on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 and the year finale in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 13.

The four races will be the final additions to this year’s calendar, bringing the full amount of situations to 17.

F1 also confirmed the beforehand postponed Chinese Grand Prix will not just take location this calendar year, with affirmation of the cancellation of the Vietnamese Grand Prix predicted in due program.

“We are very pleased to announce that Turkey, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi will be part of our 2020 time,” F1 CEO Chase Carey explained. “This yr has introduced Components One and the entire world with an unprecedented challenge and we want to fork out tribute to anyone throughout Method A person, the FIA, the groups, and our associates who have manufactured this achievable.

“When we are all unhappy that we have not been in a position to return to some of our prepared races this year we are self-assured our season has started well and will carry on to produce a lot of excitement with common, as very well as new, races that will entertain all our admirers.”

F1 also declared that a range of the remaining races will acquire location with admirers in attendance. The Russian Grand Prix at the conclude of September has been selling tickets for a number of months and is anticipated to be the to start with race that will be open up to lovers through the coronavirus pandemic.

The Portuguese Grand Prix at the Autodromo Internacional Algarve is focusing on as lots of as 30,000 supporters for every working day at its location around Portimao in late Oct.

F1’s assertion included: “While we want to see as lots of supporters as probable return as shortly as it is harmless to do so, our priority stays the basic safety of the Components Just one neighborhood and the communities we go to, and we evaluation supporter entry on this basis.”

The activity has currently done six races this time behind closed doorways in Austria, Hungary, Good Britain and Spain. The year will proceed this weekend with spherical 7 at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

Istanbul Park hosted the Turkish Grand Prix among 2005 and 2011 and is a objective-created circuit to the east of Istanbul. It presented good racing during its time on the F1 calendar and turned famous for its higher-speed, quadruple-apex Flip 8.

Bahrain and Abu Dhabi have been earmarked as the closing rounds of the 2020 calendar for numerous months. The time will end with a few race weekends in a row for the initial time in F1 heritage.

Bahrain will host two races on back-to-back again weekends, but it is not yet very clear if a system to maintain one particular of the rounds on a diverse layout at the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit will go ahead.

Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit has hosted the last spherical of the period because 2014 and pays a top quality to keep its place as the remaining race on the calendar.